Neither cheerleading nor reckless criticism

To Stand Apart

Dear Reader,

Consider just one Swarajya reporter's work in the last two weeks. Abhishek Kumar has been to Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Mirzapur, and Sant Kabir Nagar in Uttar Pradesh.

His mission: to find out how the BJP lost its previously held massive margins and tell us what the actual ground situation is in these parts.

In 4-5 ground reports, he's brought back insights about the anti-Gujarati sentiment being used by Modi's opponents in Varanasi. Here PM Modi lost his margin of nearly 3 lakh votes. What does the electorate feel now—3 months after the results?

Even in Gorakhpur, from where Yogi Adityanath fights elections, there are murmurs against infrastructure works. These and other key themes are part of Abhishek's ground reports.

Our work at Swarajya is set to further expand into more such ground reporting and original writing. Social media is full of partisan cheerleaders—constructing narratives for their own parties. It's best to stand apart from them, to seek the truth and to produce and consume original journalism.

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Amar Govindarajan

CEO, Swarajya